Samoan Linguistic Acculturation in San Francisco.
1978; Volume: 20; Issue: 9 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1944-6527
Autores Tópico(s)Education Systems and Policy
Resumo1. Samoa lies 2, 300 miles southwest of the Hawaiian Islands. Eastern Samoa, whose population in 1970 was about 23, 000, is American. 1 American Samoa was taken as a naval base in 1900; later it became an unincorporated territory. Western Samoa (130, 000 speakers, 1970), formed (1899) by fiat of the English, the Germans and the Americans on the partitioning of Samoa, was taken from the Germans by troops sent from New Zealand in 1914. New Zealand governed Western Samoa until 1962 with a Class C mandate under the Versailles Treaty. A constitution of 1962 gave political control to matais or household heads of highest rank. About half the Samoan population, missionized from 1830, could read Samoan by 1850 well enough to understand Christian texts. Literacy was promoted for all Samoans by missionaries; but government-sponsored schooling was based on different policies in Eastern Samoa and Western Samoa. In American Samoa literacy has been promoted since 1900 in a system in which children 7 to 14 had to learn to read and write English under a rule of compulsory attendance and a rule that only English could be spoken on school premises. Children were taught to read and Vwrite Samoan at the elementary level, After regular school, Samoan leaders taught religious principles and Samoan customs.
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